Pastor's Corner

for Sunday 28
Imagine when this old house is made new!
As Ramona and I traveled around Ireland recently we visited a few old castles. As you walked through the old castles you got a real sense of history; one can just imagine all those who have walked these halls before you, and what it must have been like living in those days. But as interesting as they were, and how they triggered the imagination, right now they’re just relics of the past, telling a story of times gone by. These building invoke a sense of nostalgia and sadness but there is no hope of a future. There is no hope of restoration to the point that people will once again live in these building. They speak of the past not the future. As we walk through this world we are walking among the ruins of something that once was very beautiful. As we look around we see decay and brokenness, we see evidence of something lost way back in our history. But, unlike these old castles, there is hope of restoration. God tells us of a time in the future when He will restore all things, when He will make a new heaven and a new earth where righteousness dwells. This world is like a ruined castle but this world has a hope and a future and just imagine when God makes this old house new again! Just imagine when Jesus says to us, “Come you blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” What a day that will be, come Lord Jesus!
Pastor Don.